Would you believe if I told you that in some regions of the world stewardesses are sort of expected to be SEX SYMBOLS? Well, Air India just grounded some flight attendants on charges of being FAT. ONLY IN INDIA, right? Wrong! As you'll learn if you click the picture, sexist policies w/r/t flight attending have a long and sordid history in this very country! But damn if those Southwest babes didn't have nice gams back in the day. [BBC]

Here international airlines are ranked on the basis of stewardess hotness. You'll note Australian airline Qantas is on the list but Qantas is totally a respectable airline, I don't think they have ever crashed and they fired that stewardess who had mile high sex with Ralph Fiennes.

Here's a picture I found from a blog post I found on the history of sexy stewardess uniforms and another blog post on the history of sexism w/r/t sexy stewardesses.